Didn't get home till gone 6.30 last night with set off time of 11.15, 45 mins earlier than I had intended to set off.

Broke down on A1(M) south of Weatherby but managed to get off at junction and get well off the road, up a cycle path!!

It's a good job Jenny (my sister) was following me as it was her who alerted me to the fact the car was peeing water - she was flashing her lights at me and when I looked in my rear view mirror I could see water droplets on the rear screen. I looked at my temp guage which was rising rapidly so knew there was something very wrong. Luckily it happened only a few miles from the next junction was was able to continue until then and safely pull in off the motorway - thank god as it was so busy I wouldn't like to have been stuck on the hard shoulder.

I assumed it was the leaking radiator that had just gone but when I looked it was bone dry - it was the hose at the back that goes into the heater matrix that had gone, only on the join though.

AA called out, new joining pipe, system topped up and bled, test run up the A168 - all's good - continued on. Temp hadn't got into the red by about 1mm but at least it didn't overheat properly otherwise I think it may have been a different story.

Alls well that ends well anyway and funnily enough, my radiator has stopped dripping!! Maybe the excess heat has wealded the flange together lol

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Oh no Em!! Glad it was so easily sorted though, did you have wait long for the recovery people?

Similar thing happened in my yellow one a few years ago, a pipe join blew near the + shaped 4-way in front of the soundproofing. It all happened within the space of about 15 seconds.....I noticed a funny smell, looked down and the temp gauge was rocketing, quickly pulled over and as I shut the engine off the cloud of steam errupted from the scuttle. My heart absolutely sank; it looked a lot worse than it turned out to be!

Mind you my stereo has gone all quiet now as it lost all its settings - AA man unplugged something by accident so clock zeroed out and stereo went to demo mode - need to sort that and all will be well.

Over 700 miles over the long weekend I love my Cinquecento!

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